Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FRITZ BARZILAUSKAS, although at 26 the oldest man on the Yale squad, still manages to pack his 220 pounds around the left guard slot with amazing agility. The most vicious tackler in the veteran Eli line, he plays in the middle of the five-man defensive foreward wall...
EMIL DRVARIC, all city guard for two years in Milwaukee, enrolled at Harvard after playing freshman football at the University of Wisconsin. "One of the most outstanding guards I have over coached," according to Dick Harlow, Emil is the most vicious blocker on the Crimson squad. Although injuries have hampered his play all year, he is expected to be in good shape this afternoon...
...wish to direct your attention to a statement appearing on p. 32 of the Oct. 14 issue of TIME, wherein I was referred to in a vicious and unwarranted manner. Whether a literary wag said it or whether TIME is using that as a cover is immaterial. The printing of such a statement in TIME is inexcusable and the only conclusion that I can arrive at is that it was deliberate inasmuch as I was the only one singled out in such a manner...
This drumhead interpretation of policy came only a few hours after another British officer, Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker, left Jerusalem on a "transfer" home. Barker, after the King David Hotel bombing, had disqualified himself with a vicious letter to division commanders, in which he urged a boycott of Jewish merchants because that would "be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes...." His recall encouraged moderate Zionist leaders, but extremists were unappeased. They provided the occasion for Webb's outburst, exploding three bombs in rapid succession near troop roadblocks and injuring eleven Tommies, one civilian...
Outcharging a lighter Indian line, the Crimson junior forces uncorked a vicious offensive which dented the Big Green's goal line six times in three periods. Right end Bud McDaniel led the scoring parade with a pair of touchdowns on a forward pass from Dave Farrell and a recovered fumble in the end zone, while Bucky Harrison warmed up for the ensuing Varsity tussle by booting four more points after touchdown...